A Deadman's Books

When Mary leaves Bill for another man, Bill becomes bitter towards women. However, when the two cross paths fifteen years later, their love lives have taken completely opposite roads. In our first review of a short-story, we look at Langston Hughes's micro-story, Early Autumn which was first published in 1950 for The Chicago Defender. We're asking the tough questions. Is micro-fiction overlooked?...

The number four book in 2025's top 5, In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, a shepherd named Santiago has a dream interpreted and is sent on a journey to find his treasure at the Pyramids of Egypt. Before leaving, he runs into a mysterious king who tells him about omens and his Personal Legend. The story then follows the boy's expedition for that Personal Legend while teaching us along the way how to s...

It's time for thei first annual Deadman's Books awards, The Deadies. In this episode we will hand out awards to our books from 2025 in categories such as, the longest, the grossest, and the worst book of the year amongst others. We will also reveal our Top 5 reads from 2025, revealing our favorite book we read from the previous year. Live from Frankfurt, Germany, it's The 2025 Deadies! Thanks for...

Jason Crockett sits down with us as we look back over our favorite moments of the year. We are thankful for one year of podcasting, and are looking back at the many memories we have made this year. We have interviewed authors, discovered new books, and asked the tough questions. Also, we want to thank you all for listening along with us. Thanks for a great first year. We are looking forward to wha...

Today at the movies, we continue looking at A Christmas Carol through the adaptation performed by the one and only Muppets. Michael Caine stars next to Kermit the Frong, Gonzo, and Rizzo in this Christmas classic. The kids sit down and talk about their favorite parts, songs, and what message they got out of this timeless story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jacob Marley was dead...and so was his partner Scrooge's heart. After denying his nephew's invitation to Christmas dinner, refusing to give to charity, and reluctantly giving his worker's Christmas Day off, Scrooge heads back to his home where his old partner is waiting for him. Marley's ghost tells him that he will be visited by three ghosts in an effort to get Ebenezer to change his ways so that...

A chase begins as The Gunslinger chases the Man in Black across a desert landscape. Seemingly the old west at first, we soon find out that this chase could be taking place in some sort of variant dimension that the Man in Black is pulling people into as a way to distract the Gunslinger from his ultimate mission: killing the Man in Black. Or is that the mission? We're asking the tough questions. Co...

In this week's episode, Jason Crockett joins us as we sit down and talk about Appalachian literature. We have curated a starter pack for you if you love Appalachia like we do. We're talking what defines Appalachia as a region, what are true trademarks of the people of Appalachia, and the harmful stereotype that has been created. We also will discuss what makes Appalachian authors so fantastic, and...

On today's bonus episode, we bring in our in-house Richard Nixon expert Dr. Russ Witcher to take us on a field trip to the past and discuss one of the key, pivotal figures from our book this week: Hogs, Horns, and Nixon Coming. We're asking the tough questions: Is today's political climate comparable to the Nixon's? What can we take from Nixon's legacy apart from Watergate and Vietnam? Where does...

In college football's centennial year of 1969, a game is chosen at the beginning of the year that will represent a celebration of the sports first 100 years. Move forward to December 6 and this game has become all that it was hoped to be as the number one and two teams in the nation would face off against each other in Fayetteville, Arkansas with none other than sitting President of the United Sta...

A group of kids are left stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash. While there, the children begin to form society. In that society come contrasting ideas which leads to two dividing factors. At what point does the straw snap? Jason Crockett joins us, and we're asking the tough questions. At what point do people feel as if they have been pushed far enough? How do you keep doing what is ri...

A sudden worldwide plague strikes ending the lives of all creatures with a Y chromosome...except for two. Yorick Brown and his pet monkey Ampersand have found themselves in a post-apocalyptic world. While being the last man on Earth may seems like a dream scenario, Yorick is about to find out that there is more trouble ahead than pleasure. Jason Crockett joins us as we ask the tough questions. Can...

New York Times bestselling author Kevin Wilson sits down with us to talk about a variety of topics including his latest novel, Run for the Hills. In this episode, Kevin talks to us about the value and longevity of books, how his ideas and characters find their way to his writing, and his writing process & how the writing process could look completely different not just for each person, but als...

When the Cutter family is mysteriously murdered, a small town is shaken. The police work patiently to hunt down their murderers before eventually bringing them to justice. Truman Capote's famous true-crime novel looks back at his jailhouse interviews that he conducted to put together one of the most popular narrative-nonfiction novels of all-time, and giving birth to one of the most popular genres...

If you are not a big reader of horror, our horror expert Jason Crockett will walk you through a curated starter pack fo those interested in starting the genre. From short stories to novels and podcasts, Jason gives us the right tricks and treats this Halloween to begin your horror journey. #booktube #booktok #bookstagram #ReadersofYouTube #Bookish #CurrentlyReading #BookCommunity #BookRecommendati...

Whenever Victor Frankenstein tests the limits of what science can do with a mishmash of various human body parts, he creates a monster that he becomes disgusted with. Grieved with tts rejection by its creator, the monster seeks love and acceptance leaving a trail of destruction and murder across Europe. We're asking the tough questions. How do we compare a work that reaches back like this to its m...

When Christopher and his mom move to a new city to leave her abusive boyfriend, he meets someone new. This "nice man" leads him to the site of an unfinished treehouse in the woods that secret leads to another world. We're asking the tough questions. What's the right amount of supernatural for horror? Can a book be long just for the sake of being long? What's with all of those baseball gloves and t...

When supernatural "somethings" begin to appear around the globe, just the sight of them drives people mad beyond reason leading them to brutally kill themselves and any others within their destructive path. Pregnant from a one-night stand, Mallory loses her sister and parents to the phenomenon and must seek out a new family of sorts. However, when someone gets in that the group thinks won't be tha...

When Rosemary goes back through her life, she sees the steps that she took to become the person that she is, and her problems are problems that we all deal with. Comparisons to other parents, questions about marriage and relationships, an examination of our relationship with our own parents. Gerber delivers a coming of a age story with a character that feels real and authentic. This week, Barbara...

When the Her Majesty's Secret Service is knowingly baited into a trap, the send their best man for the job...James Bond. As Bond travels to Turkey for the job, he meets all different types of characters along the way which leads him to ask the question: what makes the good guys the good guys? Jason Crockett joins us on our 50th episode as we look over Ian Fleming's famous novel and ask the tough q...

In this special episode, we crossover and give you a look at our good friend Jason Crockett's new podcast, Second Stage. In Second Stage, Jason will look at plays that are overlooked in the classroom. He asks questions like what might be the reasons that we do not teach them, the merit that they provide in the class, and how would we teach them if we got the chance. Give him a follow on Spotify, A...

When the Yoo family finally gets all of their members to America, their patriarch Pak begins a business in which he owns a hyperbolic chamber that is used to allegedly help heal children with autism and other afflictions called the Miracle Creek Submarine. However, one day when the sub goes for one of its "dives", a horrific accident happens in which it explodes leaving a child and another child's...

When the evil dragon Smaug sleeps in his stolen kingdom and treasure, a group of Dwarves seek out the help of wise Gandalf the Grey to help them retrieve it. Little did they know that Gandalf's plan all along was to leave the chances of regaining their home back to the most unassuming of all of Middle Earth's creatures: A Hobbit. Jason Crockett joins us today as we look back on this literary class...

In the 17th century, Jesuit priests attempted to spread Christianity throughout Japan despite enormous oppression from the Japanese emperor. In Shusaku Endo's novel, Silence, Endo takes the stories of various monks from that time period and combines them to create a fictionalized retelling of the experiences that all of those involved went through. With this novel, Endo presents questions that man...

In 2009, the University of Tennessee hired Lane Kiffin to take over as head football coach after legendary coach Phillip Fulmer left the program. It had been 17 years since the Volunteers had a new coach. In 2010, Kiffin was gone and ensued a decade of chaotic, dysfunctional decisions that dragged one of college football's most storied programs to depths it had never seen before. This week, we are...